North Korea Calls Blinken’s Visit To China A ‘Begging Trip’

On Wednesday, North Korea slammed the recent trip to Beijing by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, calling it a “begging trip” to defuse tensions and a failure of US policy to exert pressure on China.

Blinken and Chinese President Xi Jinping met on Monday and reached an understanding to calm their heated rivalry so that it did not escalate into confrontation. This was one of the most crucial US-China discussions since US President Joe Biden took office.

After the discussion on Monday, Blinken said he asked China to prod Pyongyang to participate in the dialogue as Beijing possesses a “unique position” to pressure Pyongyang to stop launching missiles.

The rare visit, according to Jong Yong Hak, an analyst of international affairs who was quoted by the North’s KCNA news agency, was intended to beg for a thawing of tensions because “attempts to press and restrain China may become a boomerang striking a fatal blow to the US economy.”

The remark stated that the US State Secretary’s recent trip “can never be judged other than a disgraceful begging trip of the provoker admitting the failure of the policy of putting pressure on China.”

According to the remark, the United States was to blame for raising tensions in the region by forming “anti-China complexes,” such as the QUAD alliance with Japan, India, and Australia and the AUKUS agreement with Britain and Australia.

The criticism stated that “provoking first and then talking about the so-called “responsible control over divergence of view” is the height of double-dealing and impudence peculiar to the US.”

A briefing on the two days of negotiations in China will be given to Seoul officials by Daniel Kritenbrink, the US assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs who also traveled to Beijing, on Wednesday, according to the Yonhap news agency in South Korea.